Generate Aligned Anomaly: Region-Guided Few-Shot Anomaly Image-Mask Pair Synthesis for Industrial Inspection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09619v1
• Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:56:59 GMT
• Title: Generate Aligned Anomaly: Region-Guided Few-Shot Anomaly Image-Mask Pair Synthesis for Industrial Inspection
• Authors: Yilin Lu, Jianghang Lin, Linhuang Xie, Kai Zhao, Yansong Qu, Shengchuan Zhang, Liujuan Cao, Rongrong Ji,
• Abstract summary: Anomaly inspection plays a vital role in industrial manufacturing, but the scarcity of anomaly samples limits the effectiveness of existing methods.<n>We propose Generate grained Anomaly (GAA), a region-guided, few-shot anomaly image-mask pair generation framework.<n>GAA generates realistic, diverse, and semantically aligned anomalies using only a small number of samples.
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• Abstract: Anomaly inspection plays a vital role in industrial manufacturing, but the scarcity of anomaly samples significantly limits the effectiveness of existing methods in tasks such as localization and classification. While several anomaly synthesis approaches have been introduced for data augmentation, they often struggle with low realism, inaccurate mask alignment, and poor generalization. To overcome these limitations, we propose Generate Aligned Anomaly (GAA), a region-guided, few-shot anomaly image-mask pair generation framework. GAA leverages the strong priors of a pretrained latent diffusion model to generate realistic, diverse, and semantically aligned anomalies using only a small number of samples. The framework first employs Localized Concept Decomposition to jointly model the semantic features and spatial information of anomalies, enabling flexible control over the type and location of anomalies. It then utilizes Adaptive Multi-Round Anomaly Clustering to perform fine-grained semantic clustering of anomaly concepts, thereby enhancing the consistency of anomaly representations. Subsequently, a region-guided mask generation strategy ensures precise alignment between anomalies and their corresponding masks, while a low-quality sample filtering module is introduced to further improve the overall quality of the generated samples. Extensive experiments on the MVTec AD and LOCO datasets demonstrate that GAA achieves superior performance in both anomaly synthesis quality and downstream tasks such as localization and classification.

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